2021 Summer Movie Awards

Movies are back!  Kinda.  We still have some movies moving all around, looking at you Top Gun and 007.  But it was good to get back into a theater and see some flicks after last year.  It's a nice lil piece of normalcy-ish.  With that, the SUMMER MOVIE AWARDS are back!  

Movies Seen : Cruella, Black Widow, Snake Eyes, Suicide Squad, Shang Chi, Free Guy

Not Seen : Fast 9

Best Flick : Free Guy

Best Dude : Ryan Reynolds - Guy - Free Guy : Ever since Deadpool I can no longer watch Ryan with out thinking Deadpool but the dude is just funny and he's can deliver as he did here.

Best Dudette : Florence Pugh - Yelena - Black Widow :  Talk about stealing a movie.  She nailed it and was the best part of this movie.  As good of a Marvel casting as Iron Man & Capt America.  The action and personality that she brought to this role was perfect.  And can not wait to see where she goes in the future of the MCU.

Best Scene : Natasha & Yelena in the gas station and Yelena discusses the "pose" that Natasha always does in fight scenes.  Then calls her a poser.  This comes back a couple times when breaking out the Alexei and also in the Red Room.  Great chemistry between these 2 and this is just funny stuff.  

Best Fight : The Bus Fight : Shang-Chi - By far the best fight of the summer.  It was all action from start to end.

Biggest Dud : Snake Eyes : It might be unfair right now to put this as a disappointment but this felt actually more like a Storm Shadow Origins movie than a Snake Eyes Origin flick.  That being said I am interested to see where this would go in the GI Joe Universe they are building.  I do hope we get to see that world.

Anticipated Sequel : Hawkeye Disney+ series.  If you have seen the ending of the Black Widow flick, you'll know why.

Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins, well this could have been more aptly called Storm Shadow Cobra Origins as it felt at times the film's focus was more on him and Snake Eyes was there to help further it along.

There are twists and turns that also made you do a double think of what is going on with Snake Eyes, this isn't what we've seen in the cartoon or the previous films. Now that isn't an issue but it was a shock.  And maybe somewhere in the lore of the comics there is something like this  but I haven't heard it being a GI Joe fan the past 38 years.

The action at first seemed very shaky in the way it was shot and I can agree with what John Campea said on that.  I felt it got better in the rest of the flick.

The story had some sci-fi into it but also made me think of one of the better cartoons story lines.  And I really liked the Cobra/GI Joe stuff thrown in there too.  I liked the Baroness and Scarlett.  

I really hope that in the world we are living, they give a green light to a GI Joe flick after this, GI Joe SHOULD work in the world of film we live in and it shocks me that we haven't got a good universal story.  But this was a rough start to it.  It was better though than GI Joe Retaliation.

5/10 Stars

SnakeEyes GI Joe Origins

I enjoyed the campyness of the first film, the second not so much.  I think this way they are coming at the GI Joe Universe with an origin of arguably 1 of the top 5 characters if not the top character in the history of GI Joe is a good way to go.

I know some are going to be upset SnakeEyes speaks in this, but he takes that vow after he puts on the mask.  

Here is the teaser of SnakeEyes

Snake Eyes hits theaters July 23.